Revival Conference 2007 - Keith Daniel - Part 1 — Keith Daniel

Gratitude for Those Who Opened Doors for Ministry

I am deeply grateful to God for this privilege of being here tonight, and I do thank our dear brother Don and all he does and means for us and for so many, for the extension of God's kingdom and the glory of Jesus' name.

It's a blessing to know him. Thank you. I'm honored tonight in a peculiar way in that most of the men who brought me to America in this meeting, apart from one or two, the first man was Harold Vaughan.

Now, Harold Vaughan, I believe, spoke. He was the first one to bring me to America, and I had been in Canada extensively, but somehow Harold was the one who got me here to your country many years ago now.

And it was lovely to know he was going to be on the program. Then Denny Keniston of the charity Mission Work. He's also here. He gave me many, many pulpits and spread the messages I brought in such weakness.

In love for God's kingdom, he spread the messages very widely, and I thank God for him. And then after Denny, there was Ralph Zaterra. I believe he's here also. I shook his hand just now, and it was just lovely to see him.

Him and Nancy Wells, and how they organized her first HeartCry for Revival conference with Mr. Stephen Alford there, and they somehow trusted me to be the other speaker. And I was very, very humbled to stand with the great, godly Stephen Alford before he died in one of the last moments he ever spoke publicly anyway.

But it is lovely to see Mr. Zaterra here also. And then there is Mr. Goffard, who's not here tonight, but we must make a plan next year, or somewhere where you want to get all these men together, please.

It would be lovely to have them all, everyone that brought me to your country. And then, of course, Brother Don, who for a number of years now has kept the doors open of America, and I don't do anything, just arrive and all is done of all the churches where there's invitations across this country to preach, for ten weeks of preaching annually like this.

The Global Ministry of the Sermon Website

So, thank you, and thank the dear Lord that these dear men and their godly wives can be here tonight. Finally, to thank Greg Gordon. Is he Gordon, Greg, or Greg Gordon? I was so scared there for a moment.

Dear Greg Gordon, he's a young man and a man who has vision like very few in a whole lifetime. And he has somehow in a remarkable way got a website that has been honored by God in a very unusual way across the whole world.

And the conservative-minded people of God's kingdom, those who want no compromise no matter what the rest of the church does, are deeply grateful to God for the messages this dear man has somehow made available on one site in such a very godly way.

And I have been so blessed that the dear man, for some reason, though I never met him in my life, did put my messages on alongside of some of the names that I dare not even think my messages could be on the same website.

But when I've looked at how many people across the world are downloading the messages, I've realized God is with this man and his vision in a very remarkable way. So this is his first convention that he just stepped out in faith.

As a 26-year-old man, you just don't hold conventions like this. But he did. And we bless God for him. We thank God for the vision he has. And we hope that as he stays low at the feet of Jesus, the Lord will really use him mightily and more and more mightily as God leads him, enables him, and uncarnizes his ministry.

So thank you very, very much, dear brother. Though I've never met you, your heart be our hope someway. Much prayer goes up for you, young man. And we long to see great things in this world for Jesus' kingdom through you, beyond this meeting, these meetings.

Prayer for God's Presence and Christ's Intercession

Can we bow for a moment of prayer, please? And I do hope this loudspeaker's been put up a bit, because last night I sat there and I didn't hear everything, so I'm sure there are others that needed it to be much louder than last night.

Forgive me for telling you what to do, but I have one fear that I have in life. I only have one fear, that someone could walk out of a meeting I preached at the same day that they came in, and because of that fear, I'm daring to hope you're not going to be offended by asking you to please put this loud enough not to offend, but so loud that no one could fall asleep.

Can we bow before our God, the Creator, the Savior, and the coming Judge? Can we all humbly bow before Jesus Christ, our High Priest, that ever liveth to make indecision for us? Our Father, we thank Thee above everything for Jesus.

The Holy Spirit's Work of Glorifying Christ

Our Savior, we bless Thee that the Holy Spirit shall not speak of Himself. His whole work is to glorify Christ, to conform us into the image of Jesus Christ, to draw us to Christ and to exalt Christ's name through us.

We bless Thee for our Savior, for His blood, for His risen, resurrected power, and that He lives in us, Christ in you, the hope of glory. We bless Thee, dear God, for this book that Thou hast in mercy given to man.

Human Weakness and God's Glory

We ask Thee, for without Thee we can do nothing. We are nothing. That's why Thou hast carefully choosed the base things of the world, the weak things of the world, the despised things, those things that are despised, that no flesh can glory in Thy presence.

Thou wilt never presence Thyself where a man touches the glory or wants it. Now we are okay, deeply conscious, without Thee we can do nothing. Nothing. Nothing. And so all of us look up to Thee, our expectations in Thee and Thee only.

The Spirit Gives Life to God's Word

The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. Come, give life to Thy Word. Thou hast promised Thou dost honor Thy Word above all things. Thou dost honor Thy Word above all things, and because of that promise we all come to Thee tonight and ask Thee, honor it, honor it, that which Thou dost seek for men to honor above all things, honor it tonight, though it comes through the weakest, basest, and at its best most unprofitable servant.

Thou dost not need to remind me of that, Father. Please don't have to. Come, wash me in the blood of God, the Son, the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth us from all sin. Without the blood I have nothing to show Thee as to why Thou couldst possibly use me.

Anointing for Service and the Breaking of Hardened Hearts

For there is nothing good in me. Please, God, wash me in the blood that I might be a vessel of meat for the Master's use. Fill me with the Holy Spirit, anoint and unsanitize me, and take Thy Word and give it life, and life indeed.

Come to the hardest heart and break it. Come to the proudest heart and break it. Come to the most closed heart and open it. Shock each one that thinks they can resist God. Come visit us. Rejoice!